Wikimedia uk old man and the logo

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A story ...

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This is a short "fairy story" or "just so" story that explains how the Wikimedia logo came to be the way it is Acknowledgement to Judy Robertson who wrote a very similar story and Wikimedia ... its their logo.

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A story ...

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There once was an old man

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... And he had a bag

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... the man prized the bag

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As the bag contained all the knowledge he’d collected

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A disaster happened

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His bag got holesMOTH

MOTHMOTH

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All of it was eaten by a laptop

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The man was very sad ....

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... He looked at the laptop all of HISinfo was

there

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Shakespeare

Dickens

Plato

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Shakespeare, William:

Dickens, Charles:

Plato:... other people had added more detail ...

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Shakespeare, William: British playwright. Born Stratford

Dickens, Charles: British author, wrote under the name Boz

Plato: a Greek Philosopher... other people had added a lot more detail ...

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WIKIMEDIA

UK

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Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

That's our commitment.